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Reforming a Husband 

Musical Sketch 

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By 
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Copyright, 1911, by Samuel French 



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Reforming a Husband 

Musical Sketch 
For Lady and Gentleman 

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By 
FRANK DUMONT 



Copyright, 191 i, by Samuel French 



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Reforming a Husband, 



CAST OF CHARACTERS. 

Lulu Topnote . . an aspirant for the operatic stage. 
Clarence Topnote . . a young husband who needs 

reforming. 



PROPERTIES. 



Small and large toy snakes to use as described in 
sketch. Wash-stand, bowl and pitcher, with snake in 
pitcher, up stage, r. A snake ready to be pulled across 
stage by a string. Spider or grotesque bug in Clarence's 
smoking-jacket pocket. A common truck to be wheeled 
on and off by a man. The stage can be arranged with 
handsome furniture to suit the judgment of the players. 



©CID 28110 



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Reforming a Husband 



Scene. — A handsome chamber with centre doors. Few 
bars lively music at openi?ig 

{Enter Lulu Topnote, door c. Ret7ioves opera cloak 
and haf) 

Lulu. I've searched every barroom, dub room and 
restaurant in the neighborhood, but find no traces of my 
husband. Oh I this married life is just different from 
what I expected to find it. My husband still keeps up 
his old associations and never returns to his home until 
daylight. It's awful ! {begins to cry) I'll return to 
my mother. No, I won't — she wants us to pay board. 
{paces stage) Oh ! If I could only get even with him. 
I'll try the tricks I've prepared for him. I'll make him 
see a menagerie ! If that doesn't cure him I'll send him 
to the Keely Institute. 

(Clarence Topnote outside heard siftging, '* We won't 
go home until morning," and yelling, *'Set 'em up 
again," *' Good-morning, fellers," etc. Then a man 
wheels i?i a truck, c. D,, ofi which is seated Clarence, 
coat on wrong, hat battered, collar torii, boots in his 
hand, torn umbrella, and in fact a wreck. Man 
dumps him c. and says, ''There's your husband," 
a7id exits c. d, with truck. Clarence sits up and 
laughs) 

Lulu. And to think that I am married to that ! 

{cries) 
Clarence. Now I'll shake the dice with you to see 
who buys the cigars. 

3 



4 REFORMING A HUSBAND. 

Lulu. Don't talk to me — don't talk to me ! Drunk 
again ! 

Clarence. So am I ! Where did you get your load ? 

Lulu. Oh, that I should live to be married to a man 
like this ! 

Clarence. Woman ! You're too sober for me. 

{She slaps his face) 

Lulu. I'm going back to my mother. 

Clarence, (rises) And so am I. I love my mother- 
in-law, and I'll board with her for nothing as long as I 
live. 

Lulu. Look at your condition. Look at your ap- 
pearance. Where have you been ? 

Clarence. Where they sell them that deep {bus.) for 
five cents. 

Lulu. Clarence Topnote, you're a brute. 

Clarence. You bet I'm a brute^that's what they 
all say ! 

Lulu. Where have you been ? Are you going to tell 
me ? Do you hear me talking to you ? 

(she shakes him ad lib. as she speaks) 

Clarence. Stop ! You're mixing the drinks inside 
of me. 

Lulu. I can't stand this treatment. I won't stand 
it. I will not be treated his way. 

Clarence. If it's your treat, I'll take a gin fizz this 
time. 

Lulu. Look at him, girls, ladies, look at him. 

Clarence. Yes, look at the handsomest man that 
ever struck town. And to think I've thrown myself 
away on a woman that doesn't match my complexion ! 
Where's my smoking jacket and my smoking cap and my 
smoking boots and my smoking stovepipe? 

Lulu. In the room where they belong ! 

Clarence. You think I can't see the door, don't 
you? I'll fool you. I can walk straight if I want to. 
You think I've been drinking, (laughs) That's where 
I'll fool you again. Madam, I've been hypnotized ! 
Hypnotized by a barkeeper. I'm under the influence of 



KEFORMING A HUSBAND. 5 

it now, and I can load you up with it. {she laughs) 
You doubt my veracity, do you? I'll show you. 

{bus. of hypnotism, eccentric moves ad lib.') 
Lulu, {aside) I'll just humor the fool. 

(Clarence continues his eccentric movements) 

Clarence. Now I've got you dead ! You can't 
leave the bar. I mean I've got you where I want you. 
You've got to obey me or mind what I say. Now — 
yawn ! Cry ! That comes easy — she's always crying. 
Laugh— give me the laugh. Dance— warm your feet on 
my back — no, I mean dance with your feet. That's it. 
Look out for the mouse ! {she screams and jumps upon 
a chair) Come down ! Sing — sing ! 

{Music for Lulu's sotig, and Clarence exits, door r. 
So7ig by Lulu. At end Clarence returns with eccen- 
tric smoking jacket, cap and boots in hand) 

Lulu. Now if you had a hand organ the picture 
would be complete. 

Clarence. I don't see how you could climb up and 
get the pennies ! 

Lulu, {aside) Now to see how my tricks will work, 
and if it will teach him a lesson. 

Clarence. I feel splendid ! Where have you been 
all night? {puts hand in pocket and draws out a big 
spider. Holds it up as he shakes with fright ) Oh ! 
Look at this — look at this ! Daffy bugs — daffy bugs ! 

Lulu. What's the matter ? What ails you? I don't 
see anything to frighten any one. 

Clarence. Why, of course you don't. I was just 
trying to scare you. {laughs) I didn't see a thing. 

{Slyly looks at spider and throws it away, r. i e. As 
his back is turned to Lulu, who is l. corner, she pulls 
a snake across stage by a string. It passes under 
Clarence, who has a funny back fall and bus. ad lib. 
of terror, gazing after it ) 

Clarence. Did you see it ? Did you see it ? There 
it goes ! 



6 REFOKMING A HUSBAND. 

Lulu. See what ? I don't see anything. What are 
you trying to do — frighten me ? 

Clarence. Do you mean to say you didn't see that 
big tapeworm that flew past me? 

Lulu. Are you crazy? 

Clarence. No, I'm foolish ! {rises and laughs') I 
can't scare you, can I? I came near making you believe 
I saw something, {sits on chair to pull on a boot, speak- 
ing ad lib.) You're the bravest woman I ever saw, and 
I'm a brave man. Holy Moses ! What's in my boot? 
{turns boot and spills a snake out of it) Murder ! I'm 
bit — I'm bit. Look at it ! Rattlesnakes, garter-snakes 
and boy contractors ! 

( Works himself into a fit, and Lulu picks up the snake 
and throws it out. Then she laughs at hi?n) 

Lulu. You are certainly going crazy. There is noth- 
ing upon the floor — not a thing — and yet you caper 
around like a lunatic. I won't remain in this house any 
longer. 

Clarence. Don't leave me — don't leave me. If you 
leave me here the menagerie will get me. Oh, but I'm 
thirsty ! 

{Goes to pitcher to pour out water and a snake glides 
out of it to his extre^ne fright ) 

Lulu. Well, what is it now ? 

Clarence. There's a whole nest of them — snakes, 
snakes — take *em away, {work into a dramatic scene 
of delirium) They are here, there, everywhere. I feel 
them clinging around my legs, arms and throat. Take 
'em off, take 'em off. 

{He hops and skips around the room at conclusion of 
speech and falls c, with feet sticking up) 

Lulu. Will I get you a gin fizz? 

Clarence, {rises) No, no, I'm done drinking. No 
more liquor for me — until the barrooms open — but honest, 
I'll swear off. 



REFORMING A HUSBAND. 7 

Lulu. Will you take me to the theatre ? 

Clarence. Theatre at five o'clock in the morning 
when the milk men are just coming around? 

Lulu. I don't care ! I've got a right to be up as 
early as you have — or as late — and it's never too late for 
the opera. 

Clarence. The opera ? What do you know about 
the opera ? 

Lulu. I'm opera crazy. I've been studying to go on 
the stage as a grand prima donna ! 

Clarence. And I've been studying for a great big 
prima doughnut. Let's have an opera of our own ! I 
don't care what becomes of me now. 

Lulu. All right. If I'm good, I'll go on the stage. 

Clarence. And I'll draw your salary like a dutiful 
husband and show you how to spend it. 

(M.vsic— Operatic selection) 



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JUST PUBLISHED 

What Happened to Jones 

An Original Farce in Three Acts 
By GEORGE H. BROADHURST 



CAST OF CHARACTERS 

JONES, who travels for a hymn-book house 

EBENEZER GOODLY, a professor of anatomy 

A>^TONY GOODLY, D.D., Bishop of Ballarat 

RICHARD HEATHERLY, engaged to Marjorie 

THOMAS HOLDER, a policeman 

"WILLIAM BIGBEE, an inmate of tJie Sanitarium 

HENRY FULLER, superintendent of the Sanitarium 

MRS. GOODLY, Ebenezer's wife 

CISSY, Ehenezefs ward 

MARJORIE, ) 

MINERVA ) ^^^^^^<^^*'^ daughters 

ALVINA STARLIGHT, Mr. Goodly' s sist&r 
HELMA, a servant 

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES 

ACT 1. — Handsomely furnished room in home of 

Ebenezer Goodly. 
ACT 2.— The same. 
ACT 3.— The same. 

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VOL. I. 
I Tk« Wih Attorney 
f BooU nt the Swan 
8 How to Pfty the Rent 
4 The Loan of a Lorer 
« The Dead Shot 
fi Hit Last <.eei 
7 The (nvii.Dle Prinot 
$ The Uolilen Farmer 

VOL. II. 
• fride of the Market 

10 Uied Up 

11 The Irlth Tutor 

1! The Barrack Eoom 

13 Luke the Laborer 

14 Beauty and the Beaet 

15 St. Patrick's Eve 

16 Captain of the Watoh 

VOL. IIL 
n The Secret Ipere 

18 White Hone of the Pep- 
1» The Jacobit* 
SO The Bottle 
21 Boi and Cox 
ti Bamhoozllnr 
83 Widow's Victim 
24 Robert Macairt 

VOL. ir. 

n Secret ServlM 
2« Oinnibm 

27 Irish Lion 

28 Maid of CroIiST 
49 The Old Guard 
80 Rai«in(5 the Wind 

31 Slasher and Craeher 

32 Naval Gne-igementa 

VOL. V. 
38 Coeknies in California 
34 Who Speakt Firet 
;1S Boinbastes Kurioeo 
34 Macbeth Travestle 

37 Irish Ambass:idor 

38 Delicate Ground 

38 The Weathercock iQoId 

40 All that Glitters U Not 

VOL. VI. 

41 Grimshaw, Bagshaw and 

Brailshaw 
43 Rough Diamond 
13 Bloomer Costume 
i4 Two Bonnycastlee 
15 Bom to Good Luck 
ib Kiss in the Dark [jurer 
47 'Twould Puazle a Con- 
18 Kill or Cure 

VOL. VII. 

49 Box and Cox Married and 

50 St. ipid [Settled 
61 Go-t« bed Tom 

58 The Lawyers 
53 Jack 3h 
64The"oodleg 
56 The lobcap 
66 Ladies Beware 

VOL. VIII. 
.^T Morning Call 

68 Popping the QueetloB 

69 Deaf «B a Post 
40 Ne.T Footman 

«1 Pleasant Neighbor 
,8 Paddy the Piper 
«8 Brian O'Linn 
64 Irish Assurance 
VOL. IX 
66 Temptation 
66 Paddv '"»rey 
87 Two Gregoriee 
Se King Ch8'miu(f 

69 Po-ca-hon-ta« 

70 Clockmaker's Hat 

71 Married Rake 

79 Lore and Murder 

VOL. X. 
75 Ireland and Amerlea 

74 Pretty Piece of Busineu 

75 Iri<h Broom-onaker 
7CTo Paris aui<* Baek f( 

l*1ve Pound* 

77 Tkat Bleesed Bak^ 
rt Oer Gal 

78 Swiss Cettaga 
M YeuBg Wldo»f 



VOL. XI. 

81 O'Flannigan and the Fat 

82 Irish Post [ries 
88 My Neighbor's Wife 
64 Irish Tiger 

85 P. P., or Man and Tiger 

86 To Oblige Benson 

87 State Secrets 

88 Irish Yankee 

VOL. XII. 

89 A Good Fellow 

90 Cherry and Fair Star 

91 Gale Breeiely 
98 Our Jemiuiy 

93 Miller's Maid 

94 Awkward Arrival 
96 Crossing the Llca 
96 Conjugal Lesson 

VOL. XIII, 
?7 My Wife's Mirror 

98 Life in New York 

99 Middy Ashora 
00 Crown Prinoa 

101 Two Queens 

102 Thumping Legacy 

103 Unfinished G«atl«maii 

104 House Dog 

VOL. XIV. 

105 The Demon Lorar 

106 Matrimony 

107 In and Outof Placa 

108 I Dine with My Mother 
10* Hi-a-wa-tha 

10 Andv Blaka 

111 Love' In '76 Jtlet 

112 Romance andar Dlmcul- 

VOL. XV, 
ISOneCoatfor iSulU 

1 14 A Decided Caia 

115 Daughter [norltv 

116 No; or, the Glorious Ml- 

117 Coroner's Inouisitloa 

118 Love in Humbla Lifa 

119 Family Jars 

120 fersonatlon 

VOL. XVT. 

121 Children In the Wood 

122 Winning a Husband 

123 Day After the Fair 

124 Mak< Your Wills 
l'j'6 Rendezvous 
126 My Wife's Husbaai 
I Jl Monsieur Tonson 

128 Illustrious Strangar 

VOL. XVII. 

129 Miechlef-Making[Ml nes 

130 A Live Woman in the 

131 The Corsair 

132 Shy lock 

133 Spoiled Child 

134 Evil Eya 
136 r^^^thing toJS'arsa 

136 Wanted* Widow ( 

VOL. XVITL 

137 Lottery Ticket 

1 38 Fortune's Frolla 

139 Is he Jealous! 
V.O Married Bachelor 

141 Husband at Sight 

142 Irishman In London 

143 Animal Magnetism 

144 Highways and By-W ays 

VOL. XIX. 

145 Columbus 

146 Harlequin Blu( 

147 Ladie^ at Home 

148 Phenomenon In a Staock 

Frock 

149 Comedy and Tragedy 

150 Opposite Neighbors 

151 Dutchman's Ghost 

152 Persecuted Dutchman 

VOL. XX. 

158 IvTusard Ball 
.5^ Great Tragic Rerlval 

1 55 High Low Jack 4 Game 

156 A Gentleman from Ire- 

1 57 Tom and Jerry [land 
IBS Vlllige Lawyer 

159 Captain's not A-miss 
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162 , 

163 1 

164 £ 
16il 

166 Laay oi aaacnamoer 

167 Take Care of Little 

168 Irish Widow [Charley 

VOL. XXII, 

169 Yankee Peddler 

170 Hiram Hireout 

171 Double-Bedded Room 

172 The Drama Defended 

173 Vermont Wool Dealer 

174 Ebeneser Venture [ter 

175 Principle* from Charac- 

176 Lady of the Lake (Trav) 

VOL. XXUi. 

177 Mad Dow 

178 Barney the Baron 

179 Swiss Swains 

180 Bachelor's Bedroom 

181 A Roland for an Oliver 
189 More Blunders than One 
188 Dumb Belle 

ls4 Limerick Boy 

VOL. xxrv. 

186 Nature and Philosophy 

186 Teddy the Tiler 

187 Spectre Bridegroom 

188 Matteo Falcon* 

189 Jenny Llnd 

190 Two Buzaarda 

191 Happy Mim 
198 Betsy Baker 

VOL. XXV. 

193 No. 1 Roand tha Comer 

194 Teddy Ro* 

196 Object ot Interest 

196 My Fellow Clerk 

197 Bengal TIcer 

198 Laughlnf Hvena 

199 The Victor Vanquished 

200 Our Wlh 

VOU XXVL 
801 My Husband's Mirror 

902 Yanka* Land 

903 Norah Cretna 
804 Good for Nothtof 

205 The First Nigkt 

206 The Eton Boy 

207 Wandering Minstrel 

208 Wanted, 1000 Milliners 

VOL. XXVIL 
809 Poor Pilcoddy 

210 The Mummy [Glasees 

211 Don't Forget your Opera 

219 Love In Livery 

213 Anthony and Cleopatra 
214Trylng It On 

816 Stage Struck Yankea 
2ie Young Wlfa & Old Um- 
brella 

VOL. xxvni. 

817 Crinoline 

918 A Facflily Falllnf 
819 Adopted Child 

220 Turned Heads 

221 A Match In the Dark 

222 Advice to Husbands 

223 Siamese Twins 

224 Sent to the Tower 

VOL. XXIX. 

226 Somebody Flse 
2 6 Ladies' Battle 

227 \rt of Acting 

228 The Ladv of the Lions 

229 The Rights of Man 

230 My Husoand's Ghost 

231 Two Can Play at that 

Game 

232 Fighting by Proxy 

VOL. XXX. 

233 Unprotectad Female 

234 Pet of the Petticoats 

235 Forty and Fifty [book 
2.36 Who Stole the Pocket- 
■J37 Mv Son Diana [sion 
238 Unwarrantable I n t ' u - 
2S9 Mr. nnd M'j. White 

40 A Quiet Family 



246 A Lover by Proxy [Pall 

247 Maid with the Milking 

248 Perjalezing Predicament 

VOL. XXXIL 

249 Dr. DUworth 
260 Out to Nurse 
251 A Lucky Hit 

259 The Dowager 

253 Metamora (BurVtque) 

254 Dreams of Delusion 

255 The Shaker Lovars 

256 Ticklish Times 

VOL. XXXIIL 
v67 20 Minutes with a Tiger 
258 Miralda; or, the Justice 

of Taoon 
289 A Soldier's Courtship 

260 Servants by Legacy 

261 Dying for Love 

262 Alarming Sacrifice 

263 Valet de Sham 

264 Nicholas Mckleby 

VOL. XXXIV. 
266 The Last of the Pigtails 

266 King Rene's Daughter 

267 Th» Grotto Nymph 

268 A Devilish Good Joke 

269 A Twice Toid Tale 

270 Pas de Fascination 
v71 Revolutionary Soldier 
279 A Man Without a Head 

VOL. XXXV. 

273 The Olio, Part 1 

274 The Olio, Part > 

275 The Olio, Part 8 [ter 

276 The Trumpeter's Dangb. 

277 Seeing Warren 

278 Green Mountain Boy 

279 That Nose 

280 Tom Noddy's Secrat 

VOL. XXXVL 

281 Shocking EvenU 

282 A Regular Fix 

283 Dick Turpin 

284 Young Scamp 

285 Young Actress 

286 Call at No. 1—7 

287 One Touch of Nature 

288 Two B'hoys 

VOL. xxxvir. 

289 All the World's a Staga 

290 Quash, or Nigger Prao- 

291 Turn Him Out [tloe 

292 Pretty Girls of Stlllberg 

293 Angel of the Attic 

294 C'rcumstancesalterCasss 

295 Katty O'.'^heal 

296 A Supper in Dlxla 

VOL. XXXVIIL 

297 Ici on Parle Francals 

298 Who Killed Cock Robin 

299 Declaration of ludepend- 

300 Heads or Tails [ence 

301 Obstinate Family 

302 Mv Aunt 

303 That Rascal Pat 

304 Don P.addy de Bazan 

VOL. XXXIX. [tura 
805 Too Much for Good Na- 
306 Cure for the Fidgets 
.307 Jack's the Lad 
.308 Much Ado A hout Nothing 

309 Artful Dodarer 

310 Winning Hazard 

311 Day's Fishing [&e. 

312 Did vou evr send your, 

VOL. XL. 

313 An Irishman's Maneuver 

314 Cousin Fannie 

31 .1 'Tis the Darkest Hour be- 

316 Masquerade [fore Dawn 

317 Crowding the Season 

318 Good Nieht'sRost 

319 Man with the Carpet Bv"» 

320 Terrible Tinker 



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